 First They Came for the Florists
The Threat to Pastors' Religious Freedom in Iowa By: John Stonestreet|Published: December 29, 2016 In 2007, Iowa enacted a law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The law applies to what are known as “public accommodations.” Now federal law typically considers “public accommodations” to be facilities like restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, retail establishments, and parks. But recently, the Iowa Civil Rights Commission added something atypical to that list: church services. Read on -->>
 Yes to Freedom, No to SOGI Laws
A Declaration to Protect our Constitutional Rights by ERIC METAXAS Constitutional freedoms and bological reality are under attack. And we—you and I—must take a stand. Back in 2009, my BreakPoint colleague John Stonestreet was “in the room” so to speak as Chuck Colson was developing the Manhattan Declaration to defend the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom. John once told me how he totally “got” why Christians had to stand up for marriage at the time. But in 2009, he wasn’t certain we needed a declaration to defend religious freedom—what was the connection between marriage and religious freedom? Well, as John will now tell you, Chuck was right. Chuck foresaw a time when Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality would make us targets in the public square—and that our right to live out those beliefs would come under fire. But what no one, including Chuck, could see back then was how quickly we’d find ourselves in a world in which the observable biological realities that make us male or female would be denounced and denied—in academia, in the culture, and even in the law. That pure emotion (as Princeton’s Robert George has said) would replace biological facts. That people would be forced by government to comply with these kinds of personal beliefs and lifestyle choices. And that’s exactly where we are. The best example of this is so-called SOGI laws, that is, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity laws. As John mentioned on BreakPoint last week, SOGI laws create new protected classes of people based on inclination and behavior, not race, sex, or creed. These laws threaten not only religious freedom, but freedom of speech and freedom of association—especially for Christian institutions and individuals. This is why John and I and more than 80 Christian leaders have signed a document to “Preserve Americans’ Constitutional Freedoms from Government Coercion.” And it’s why I’m inviting every BreakPoint listener to sign the document as well: Please, simply go to ColsonCenter.org/freedom. As the document states, “creative professionals, wedding chapels, non-profit organizations, ministries serving the needy, adoption agencies, businesses… religious colleges, and even churches have faced threats and legal action under such laws for declining to participate in same-sex wedding ceremonies; for maintaining policies consistent with their guiding principles, and for seeking to protect privacy by ensuring persons of the opposite sex do not share showers, locker rooms, restrooms, and other intimate facilities.” Now, as John mentioned last week, some Christians are seeking a middle ground, to carve out exceptions to SOGI laws for churches and religious organizations such as universities. But this approach hangs the Christian baker, florist, or photographer out to dry—not to mention Christian lawyers, doctors, counselors, and professionals of all stripes. As Christians we believe there is no distinction between a secular and sacred vocation—that all work done to the glory of God is sacred. How can we then carve out protections for so-called “religious” organizations, yet leave out everyone else? There’s another problem with this approach: it assumes the good graces of the champions of sexual identity rights—that they’ll embrace compromise now and in the future. And that, my friends, is alas, wishful thinking. Already we’ve seen legislators try to label churches as “places of public accommodation” (and therefore not protected from SOGI laws) if they have pot-luck dinners; we’ve seen them try to distinguish between Christians colleges that train people specifically for ministry as opposed to those Christian colleges that train people to be accountants or English teachers. So friends, it is time to take a stand. I’m asking you to help “Preserve Americans’ Constitutional Freedoms from Government Coercion.” Please, come and sign the statement at ColsonCenter.org/freedom. NEXT STEPS Click here to read and sign the statement on preserving Americans' constitutional freedoms in the face of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity laws. RESOURCES SOGI statement Religious Freedom and SOGI Laws: Don’t Demonize, Don’t Compromise John Stonestreet | BreakPoint.org | December 14, 2016 Available at the online bookstore The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity Os Guinness | IVP Books | September 2013 Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom Ryan T. Anderson | Regnery Publishing | August 2015 The Liberty Threat: The Attack on Religious Freedom in America Today James Tonkowich | Saint Benedict Press | July 2014 December 18, 2016
Four interesting articles from CultureWatch: One. So child abuse has now become a mainstream pastime in the West. The National Geographic trans issue is just the latest example of this great evil: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/12/18/national-gendergraphic-child-abuse/ Two. The gender bender Scrooges hate our children and want to foist their moonbat agendas upon them: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/12/17/miserable-gender-bender-scrooges/ Three. When Christians slavishly follow the spirit of the age, they end up with a god of their own imagination, one who simply wants everyone to be happy and never offended: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/12/17/23182/ Four. God never changes. He is always pure, holy and awe-some. But the new covenant made all the difference in the world in terms of getting access to God: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/12/18/are-you-rejoicing-yet/ Bill Muehlenberg CultureWatch http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/  ‘Genderqueer’ identity book recommended for 7-year-olds
A book claiming the phrase “boys and girls” excludes children who are ‘gender diverse’ is being targeted at children as young as seven. Read on -->> ‘Homosexuality will send people to hell’ – church sermons on public school grounds - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/06/27/claims-evangelical-christian-churches-preach-gay-hate-public-schoolshttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.sbs.com.au
The position announced by the Victorian branch of the Salvation Army (see earlier blog post), going against the views of Jesus Christ, upon whose doctrine the Salvos was founded, and supporting a schools program which is designed to normalize and promote gay sex to children, may not be just a local problem. The following report from Victorian Salvos head Geoff Webb, who is the Vice-Chair of the Salvos International Doctrine Council reveals that this head council may be the possible source of the cancer.
The position taken by Mr. Webb, in using the Salvation Army's media unit to publically promote the deceptively named "Safe Schools" program, begs the question, "What does the Salvation Army now stand for?" It started as Christian group promoting the message of Jesus Christ, but now seems to promote a message in stark opposition to that of Jesus. Jesus showed love by calling people to repent, not to celebrate, affirm and normalize sinful lifestyles and behaviour. That is the Christian message. Repentance means turning away from ones old sinful self, not affirming and celebrating and encouraging it, which is what Safe Schools program is all about. "Christian truth isn’t made of what people who call themselves Christians say. It’s revealed truth, made known through creation, through Scripture, ultimately through Christ—each of which are quite clear about what makes us male and female, what marriage is, and about sexual morality." John Stonestreet What does Christian truth, as revealed by God, say about the gay lifestyle: "Homosexual sex is "detestable," "unnatural" and "shameful." (Romans 1:27)." The Safe Schools program is nothing but, "A filthy and perverted pro-homosexual indoctrination program created by an avowed Marxist." It is “a cheap excuse for homosexual propaganda and proselytising.”(1) IT IS NOT ABOUT BULLYING, IT IS ABOUT DECEPTIVELY PROMOTING DEPRAVED SEX AS BEING NORMAL. AND TO CHILDREN AT THAT!!! "THE International Theological Council (formerly known as the International Doctrine Council)... The recently appointed Chair of the Council, Lieut-Colonel Dr Karen Shakespeare, welcomed new members to their first meeting: Commissioner Denise Swansbury (International Headquarters), Colonel Grace Chepkurui (Kenya West Territory), and Major Donna Evans (The Netherlands and Czech Republic Territory)." Report prepared by Major (Dr) Geoff Webb Vice-Chair, International Theological Council http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr310315  Exclusive
‘Husband, wife’ now ‘off limits’ 12:00am REBECCA URBANVictorian government workers are being discouraged from using terms such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ by a new guide. The Australian  @DeplorableKidsIt is time to rise up and re-take Western civilization from the gay destoyers. Don't believe the fascist rainbow. Make 2017 the year when the rainbow juggernaut is repelled and freedom reigns once more. Dont let them impose their gender and homosexual agenda on our society. Take it back. Follow on twitter at @DeplorableKids and start the fight back.
http://www.truemarriageequality.com/blog/gay-sex-will-keep-people-out-of-heaven-celebrating-affirming-and-encouraging-it-is-not-a-christian-option-the-salvos-have-got-this-very-wrong "It's sort of like a new group of mathematicians that come along, and they say 2+2=5. And the traditionalists say, 'No, it's 4, it's always been 4, it always will be 4.' And the new ones say, 'No, we insist that it's 5.' So, the traditionalists say, 'I'll tell you what, for you it can be five; we're keeping it as 4.' And then, the new ones say, 'No, no, it has to be 5 for you, and if it's not, then you're a mathosaur or a mathophobe. And basically, that's the situation we find ourselves in (with the marriage attack)" Dr. Ben Carson- Neuro Surgeon.
"No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous... Homosexuality is not an inborn trait." Dr. Camille Paglia (Homosexual).
Read the viral article "Born This Way" here.  History Lesson: Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed Because of Same-sex Immorality. There is always a price to pay. Actions have consequences.
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.” 3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the (gay) men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.” 6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.” 9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door. (They intended to rape the men against their will.) 10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door. 12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.” 14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. 15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.” 16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” 18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[b] please! 19 Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d] eyes, and you[e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.” 21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[f]) 23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. http://sodomandgomorrahsunday.weebly.com/genesis-19---sodom-and-gomorrah.html  The Salvos should condemn Safe Schools for normalizing and encourage gay sex to children rather than promote the Safe Schools deception by their media releases. They are not a school so why are they even in the business of commenting on it? Following on from their Victorian branch media release, they have now gone national. In their latest media release the Salvos say, "The Salvation Army is a Christian movement dedicated to sharing the love of Jesus." However, if they are promoting sin rather than promoting repentance of sin then they are simply no longer Christian. Jesus showed love by calling people to repent not to celebrate, affirm and normalize sinful lifestyles and behaviour. That is the Christian message. Repentance means turning away from ones old sinful self, not affirming and celebrating and encouraging it. "Christian truth isn’t made of what people who call themselves Christians say. It’s revealed truth, made known through creation, through Scripture, ultimately through Christ—each of which are quite clear about what makes us male and female, what marriage is, and about sexual morality." John Stonestreet What does Christian truth, as revealed by God, say about the gay lifestyle: "Homosexual sex is "detestable," "unnatural" and "shameful." (Romans 1:27)." The Safe Schools program is nothing but "A filthy and perverted pro-homosexual indoctrination program created by an avowed Marxist." It is “a cheap excuse for homosexual propaganda and proselytising.”(1) It IS NOT ABOUT BULLYING, IT IS ABOUT DECEPTIVELY PROMOTING DEPRAVED SEX AS BEING NORMAL. AND TO CHILDREN AT THAT!!! "Given that the entire program is about Marxist social engineering and the total promotion of all things homosexual and transgender, along with the complete assault on gender and sexuality as God designed it, cosmetic changes certainly will not suffice." (1) THE PROGRAM MUST BE REMOVED FROM OUR SCHOOLS. The new national media release from the Salvos reveals the depth of the problem which has obviously spread throughout the organization. "One could also assess the new statement in terms of the whole counsel of God. In the 400-word statement, the word ‘love’ is mentioned 9 times. We also have plenty of words from the progressive lexicon such as discrimination, compassion, tolerance, sexual orientation, and the like. "But how many times do we find biblical words and concepts like the following mentioned: holiness, righteousness, purity, sin, justice, marriage, the sin of homosexuality, and so on? Not once. All in all this reads like something that the Labor left or the Greens might have written, rather than something William and Catherine Booth might have penned." (1) Jesus is the Messiah of the Old Testament which makes it clear that the sin in Sodom & Gomorrah (Gen 19:1-29) was rampant homosexual immorality. Gay men even forcing themselves on unwilling men to perform gay sex with them, and against their will at that. So it was not just gay sex it was gay rape. "Safe Schools" and all the other LGBTIQW attempts to force homosexuality on our society is no different. It is gay rape of our youth and society. They do not propose, they forcefully impose, and seek to bash all opposition to their movement as hard as they possibly can. The more access they get to public funds the more severe the bashing will get. Leviticus 18:22 says to men: "Do not have sex with a man as one does a woman; that is detestable." "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9–10). "For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure...has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience (Ephesians 5:3–6). Jesus made it clear what marriage really is and what it is not: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:4-6). (1) https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/11/30/salvo-back-safe-schools-small-welcome-start/ http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/en/News-and-Media/news-and-media1/The-Safe-Schools-Initiative/ Tweet your disapproval to: @salvos @SalvationArmyUS @salvationarmy @SalvArmyIHQ Below are a few articles which defend traditional marriage, family and children which are worth your sharing far and wide:
"Same-sex marriage: Totalitarian tolerance" by Miranda Devine "The Real Agenda Behind the Safe Schools Coalition" by Bill Muehlenberg "12 Ways Homosexual Adults Endanger Children" by Linda Harvey "Dumb, Sodomy and the Cash" by Merve Bendle "An Open Letter to Safe Schools Coalition" from Akos Balogh "Farewell, religious liberty, farewell, conscience" by Augusto Zimmermann "The Juggernaut" - A perceptive new article on the powerful ideological movement to abolish traditional marriage. "The Quickening" - The decline of the West is picking up speed rapidly. But it is not too late. "CIVIL WAR" - Dividing up the West between the Rainbow people, Islam and the Remnant. "Seven Points You Need to Know about the “Safe Schools” Deception" By Bill Muelhenberg "Same-Sex Marriage Goal is to Abolish Marriage and Family" by Stella Morabito "No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous... Homosexuality is not an inborn trait." By Dr. Camille Paglia (Homosexual). (An article which contains all the genuine evidence which shows that people are born gay). "Why SS Marriage Will Never Measure up to the Real Thing" by Dustin Siggins and David Flynn "Redefining marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage. It also redefines parenthood. Just ask the kids" by John Stonestreet. "The Bible and Same-Sex Marriage: 6 Common But Mistaken Claims" By Darrell Bock "God's View of Sex" by Billy Graham "Open Letter to Australia's Parliament from a Concerned Australian" "Hidden Homosexual Agenda Revealed: 12 Shocking Quotes" By John Richie "10 Reasons Why Homosexual “Marriage” is Harmful and Must be Opposed" By TFP Student Action "Fathers and Mothers Matter" By Darrell Brown "Does Gender Matter" From AMF "The Impact on Children" from AMF "Discrimination" from AMF @DeplorableKids @DeplorableKids Deplorable Children of the world, rise up and re-take Western civilization. Don't believe the fascist rainbow. Make 2017 the year when the rainbow juggernaut was repelled and freedom reigned once more. Dont let them impose their gender and homosexual agenda on your society. Take it back. Sign up on twitter at @DeplorableKids and start the fight back.  |
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True marriage offers true equality for children. Every child comes from and needs BOTH a Mum and a Dad. Every human being has dignity and deserves respect. All sorts of relationships can be respected at law without having to change marriage laws. In fact that has been the case legally for many years. The simple fact remains though that not every relationship is marriage.